...and ineffaceable. Hamlet, in his deprecatory self-torturings does indeed ask himself the question:— ‘What is a man, If his chief good and market of...time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.' But it is only that he may the more clearly infer that man is no such mere animal, but, on the contrary,...

...Claudius says of the deranged Ophelia, "mere beasts." Which is the same notion that torments Hamlet: "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his...time / Be but to sleep and feed? / A beast, no more." He wants for himself, and admires in others, the ability to act rationally: "Give me that man / That...

...riecheggia in questo paragrafo il famoso monobogo in cut Amleto dà sfogo ai suoi propositi di vendetta. <<What is a man, if his chief good and market of his...time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast no more>>. 4. <<Nati... servirlix': E un verso di Edmund Young, <<Born for their use, they live but to oblige...

...self-remembrance, Hamlet disdains food precisely as a signifier of our too limited human dimension, crying "What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?—a beast, no more" (4.4. [c.23-25]). 25 Indeed Hamlet's disdain for food and for our beastly...

...on whom I please ' ; and Hamlet, iv. iv. 36— 'Sure, He, that made us with such large discours«, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.' Liberal in giving, only Mt 28" 'They gave arge money unto the soldiers' (Tindale's tr., ¡r. apyi'pta...

...soul-inspiring and ennobling in this pursuit of the mind if it is followed by men of such spiritual ardour. Sure He that made us with such large discourse Looking before and after, gave us not This capability and Godlike reason To fust in us unused 94 Philosophical speculation is something more...

...attempts to think his way into action, and to pinpoint and address deficiencies in his self. He muses, “What is a man/ If his chief good and market of his time/Be but to sleep and feed?” (Shakespeare 1992: 203). Like Descartes, Hamlet recognizes that “man”...

...concerns him. The keywords are still intellectual: "reason," "thinking," "thought," "wisdom," and "cause." What is a man, If his chief good and market of his urne Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking...

...apprehension, how like a god: the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals; . . . . J (II,ii, 3 i6ff.) What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. (IV, iv, 33-39) It is the duty of every created thing to maintain itself in its own duly appointed...

...Guildenstem and the rest pass on How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his...capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th'event A...